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Show ZANE'S - F. C BRIGADE. " " " Throe New Itecruits Sent Up for the r Usual Six Months Drill. The curiosity and interest which used to fill the Third District Court with spectators spec-tators on occasions when His Honor was to-jass sentencej-on parties cTjnvicted of unlawluJicdiaWtJonhal aliiosj, died out lately, owing to the frequency of the occurrences. This morning, however, there was a iair-sizedr crowd o present when the Judge called up John Y. Smith, the policeman, Thomas Jones and John P. Ball, all of this city. Smith confirmed by his manoeuvering what had jeen alleged against ihini; izVthatitie" $SrotMtoake jg iec'aryj prom-and prom-and avoid the Pen. ife'answered everything every-thing but the Judge's poirited question : "Do you intend to obey the law in future?" fu-ture?" and tlwught his past record should be taken as an index to his future conduct. When finally pinned down to the point at issue he expressed his un-willingnee un-willingnee to uiakoi-any promises re-spectirtglhe re-spectirtglhe fntnre"i"aTid 'accordingly was given six months and 300.:-I John, P. ( Ball, when arraigned, expressed, ex-pressed, a conviction that polygamy, had ' been .revealed .from Heaven, and lie so obeyed it. ,If, fn. conforming ,to this divine ( ?) institution he conflicted with the , Jaw. of the land,. ho. was ready and willing to suffer .the couseauences.. 1 The Court imposed the same "penalty as in Smith's case, and Ball was crfvon--thp privilege of posing as a martyr. " ' ' Tlionlas Jones was tlie on from wiiom the siwctators, as well as the Court, were destined to receive some welcome entertainment. en-tertainment. He could scarcely wait for the Judge to ask the usual" question ques-tion in relation to future conduct, and when'it rwas put he almost broke: loose from himself in an excited stump oration. The Judge reminded him that he was before the Court as a convict awaiting sentence, and not as an adviser and counselor to the . Court. Jonas impudently im-pudently declared that it was the Judge who had violated the law the law of God and was with the rest of the benighted be-nighted world in total darkness and kicking kick-ing vigorously against the pricks., ( His j Honor, after very emphatically impress-' mg in the fanatic's mind that it was the law against unlawful cohabitation cohabi-tation only which the Court ; was considering, and reminding him once more of his insolence, for which he had half a rninxl to commit him for contempt of Court, sentenced him to six months in the Pen and to pay a fine of 30() and costs.""" " '.-' I '. - -- - Thotrio were conducted to the -Marshal's ofiice and spent most of the day in shaking hands and conversing with their relatives and friends, and were late this afternoon taken out and placed in the already crowded and .popular penitentiary, penitenti-ary, t . .--..:- f -.:. -, . ' 'a - ' ; . |